Origins of democratic culture
Subtitle: printing, petitions, and the public sphere in early-modern England
By: David Zaret.
Series: Princeton studies in cultural sociology
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Democracy -- England -- History -- 17th century; Civil society -- England -- History -- 17th century; Public opinion -- England -- History -- 17th century; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1714
Description: "This innovative work of historical sociology locates the origins of modern democratic discourse in the emergent culture of printing in early-modern England. For David Zaret, the key to the rise of a democratic public sphere was the impact of this culture of printing on the secrecy and privilege that shrouded political decisions in seventeenth-century England.

Zaret explores the unanticipated liberating effects of printing and printed communication in transforming the world of political secrecy into a culture of open discourse and eventually a politics of public opinion."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.